Beyond GDP: Measuring what matters
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Employment, Environment, Health, Housing
Economic policy must move beyond GDP to create an equitable and sustainable world. Wellbeing needs to be at the centre of progressive policy planning.
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Rental affordability and loneliness: there’s a common thread.
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Health, Housing
An unexpected solution that could help young renters and elderly owners. Connecting these unlikely two groups could help the 1.2 million lonely Australians.
Australia needs a new spatial industry strategy. Here's why.
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Employment, Energy, Retail, Transport
Australia is facing global economic challenges. Jeremy Gill rethinks spatial strategy to stay competitive.
Local governments are productivity pacesetters despite being starved of resources; reform program needed
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Employment
When it comes to delivering efficient government services, local governments are setting the pace. Local governments play an indispensable role in the productivity of Australia's economy, but they are typically seen as bit players in the big policy moves orchestrated by the Commonwealth and state governments. A reform program is needed...
Rental affordability crisis requires urgent intervention
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Housing
Australians are being hit with unsustainable rent increases according to the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index, with every capital city nationwide experiencing a decline in rental affordability in 2022. Low-income renters such as single parents, pensioners, students, and job seekers are most vulnerable...
Assessing net community benefit in the Victorian planning system
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Statutory planning practice in Victoria has struggled with the concept of net community benefit since the advent of this term in the Victoria Planning Provisions in 1996. This paper explores the reasons for the continuing controversy surrounding how the idea of net community benefit might be applied in the planning system and proposes some ways forward.